Maxims Are To The Intellect What Laws

Those Readiest To Criticise Are Often Least Able To Appreciate.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

The Mind Conceives With Pain, But It Brings Forth With Delight.

A Man Who Shows No Defect Is A Fool Or A Hypocrite, Whom We Should Mistrust. There Are Defects So Bound To Fine Qualities That They Announce Them,--defects Which It Is Well Not To Correct.

When Credulity Comes From The Heart It Does No Harm To The Intellect.